Has anyone tested the difference in download speeds with and without the switch?
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It's just a switch. It doesn't influence speeds. I bought mine to stop Charter's communication through my E-5 cable before my Firewall was booted up. ~ hnc
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I am using a Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD; the NAS is wired to a Gigabit router and Wifi network is Wireless N 150Mbps. I was getting 9-10 MB/s. I was sitting around 3 meters from AP. Infact connecting to the 100Mbps port of the switch gave me same speed.
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I usually get 60 -70 MBps . This is much better than a wireless connection. This is an alternative to not having a ethernet connection.
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I notice my internet speeds lower if I use the cm but it's still pretty fast. Try rebooting both of them. Unplug plug back in etc
1808759
We didn't notice any change in speed. Just bought it to increase storage capacity. But it works very well--no glitches or crashes. The biggest speed difference we noticed (for non-disc play) was moving from a wireless to a direct ethernet connection.
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That is definitely not my experience, and probably has more to do with your systems. My switch activates my USB devices in 1-2 seconds. But I'm not using a MAC--both of mine are PCs. I'm switching a keyboard and mouse.
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First, log onto the modem and check the connection speeds indicated. If too low based on your contract with the DSL provider, contact them to do a remote line check. If bandwidth is good coming into the modem, check for a traffic issue on whatever the modem connects to. It's possible a switch is slowing things up. Often a gigabit switch to replace an older 10/100 switch will work to speed up your LAN.
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As in somewhat of the other answers, remote streaming & download speed depends on your home internet upload speed. If you don't have at least 3Mbps up, you will not be happy with the performance. I have 6Mbps up & performance is fine. The ver 4 Pogoplug device has many nice features & simply works as a portal to your home network.
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I just tested this and there was no change in performance or interruption in service, you results may be different
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Yes; it also reduces video quality for slower connections. Thus if I'm watching Netflix and my connection gets jammed rather than stopping to buffer the quality drops down to not interrupt the viewing.For reference I use Time Warner Lite - the cheapest slowest package available ($19.99 / month) which claims download speeds up "up to 1 mbps" and I am streaming in full HD a lot of the time with virtually no wait. I just loaded an episode of Psych, took 45 seconds and its full HD.
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We don't do much gaming other than the simple things like bejeweled blitz and angry birds - but I haven't noticed anything slowing down at all since going 100% wireless. I can't tell you what to expect for the other online games that require more speed.
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2000 mbps on a gb switch just means full duplex. It means that you can transmit 1000 mbps in each direction. I can't find any info on the actual throughput or whether or not jumbo frames are supported. Even if you enabled them on both the source and destination, you would still have to run wireshark or some similar solution to know if they were actually being sent. Since there are QoS port assignments, presumably the switch doesn't function at wirespeed though.
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I'm away from home for a few months. Can't tell until I return. When I directly swapped wires, the speeds were med, high, low, off
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There's no spec on the switch over speed. From my experience, I would describe that there is a blink between the switch.
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Not very fast. I had so many problems, I got rid of it and changed my internet provider. Do not recommend it.
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Yes on the switch. Don't know on the difference. Have been very happy with the operation of the unit.
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Yes! The four (4) Wired Network Ports are Gigabit, and the Router/Switch port is also Gigabit.